Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 86 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,123 1,679 2,186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 3.39% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 3.80% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 802 1,290
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,308 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.18% +9.60% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 1,831 £75,000 +0.67% 2,089
UK excluding London -22 1,162 £69,308 +1.18% 1,080
Work from Home -18 863 £69,310 -0.99% 991
London -17 802 £85,000 +3.03% 1,275
North of England -47 373 £75,000 +7.14% 325
South East +53 314 £65,000 -7.14% 216
North West -57 203 £77,500 +10.71% 176
South West -2 147 £67,500 +12.50% 109
Midlands -62 110 £75,000 +7.14% 117
North East +14 93 £69,305 +59.78% 51
West Midlands -41 80 £80,000 +14.29% 71
Yorkshire +6 77 £69,310 -2.38% 100
Northern Ireland -25 72 £60,000 +33.33% 80
Wales -20 69 £60,000 +15.38% 20
East of England -53 42 £63,800 +0.08% 68
Scotland -46 35 £67,500 -12.90% 147
East Midlands -65 30 £65,000 -3.70% 46
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.03%) Confluence
2 28 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 21 (0.99%) Apache
4 18 (0.85%) CMS
5 14 (0.66%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.42%) nginx
9 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.28%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.094%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Eikon
5 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,092 (51.44%) AWS
2 904 (42.58%) Azure
3 330 (15.54%) GCP
4 290 (13.66%) GitHub
5 269 (12.67%) Serverless
6 201 (9.47%) SaaS
7 187 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
9 132 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 120 (5.65%) Amazon S3
12 108 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 89 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
15 86 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
16 68 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
17 62 (2.92%) Azure AKS
18 59 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
19 52 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.18%) Network Security
2 15 (0.71%) Broadband
2 15 (0.71%) DMARC
2 15 (0.71%) VPN
3 14 (0.66%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 10 (0.47%) AMQP
5 10 (0.47%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) Firewall
6 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.33%) Internet
8 6 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.24%) RFID
10 3 (0.14%) BGP
10 3 (0.14%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 3 (0.14%) SSL
11 2 (0.094%) DHCP
11 2 (0.094%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (15.26%) MongoDB
2 249 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
3 211 (9.94%) NoSQL
4 166 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
6 118 (5.56%) MySQL
7 106 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 92 (4.33%) Relational Database
9 74 (3.49%) Redis
10 58 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.37%) Big Data
13 22 (1.04%) Pinecone
14 21 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
15 15 (0.71%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 11 (0.52%) Db2
18 10 (0.47%) Metadata
19 9 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 302 (14.23%) Git
2 205 (9.66%) GitLab
3 170 (8.01%) Jenkins
4 76 (3.58%) TeamCity
5 69 (3.25%) JUnit
6 57 (2.68%) JIRA
7 56 (2.64%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.93%) Mockito
9 40 (1.88%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.74%) Maven
11 33 (1.55%) Claude Code
12 30 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.13%) Selenium
14 17 (0.80%) Spock
15 16 (0.75%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.71%) JMeter
16 15 (0.71%) Postman
17 13 (0.61%) Vite
18 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
19 10 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 547 (25.77%) Finance
2 440 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 248 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 211 (9.94%) Banking
5 175 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 159 (7.49%) Law
7 152 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (6.74%) Retail
9 95 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.10%) Legal
11 71 (3.34%) Back Office
12 60 (2.83%) Marketing
13 45 (2.12%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.46%) Games
16 28 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 15 (0.71%) Advertising
19 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 757 (35.66%) Developer
2 531 (25.01%) Senior
3 383 (18.04%) Software Engineer
4 369 (17.38%) Lead
5 325 (15.31%) Architect
6 204 (9.61%) Senior Developer
7 192 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 167 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 165 (7.77%) Java Developer
10 143 (6.74%) Java Engineer
11 133 (6.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 126 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
14 107 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
16 78 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.30%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.11%) Lead Developer
19 65 (3.06%) Technical Leader
20 62 (2.92%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (25.01%) .NET
2 463 (21.81%) React
3 427 (20.11%) Node.js
4 420 (19.78%) Terraform
5 408 (19.22%) Spring
6 371 (17.48%) Spring Boot
7 321 (15.12%) RESTful
8 299 (14.08%) Kafka
9 293 (13.80%) REST
10 238 (11.21%) ASP.NET
11 226 (10.65%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.22%) .NET Core
13 198 (9.33%) Vue
14 193 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
15 123 (5.79%) Blazor
16 102 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
17 88 (4.15%) HTML
18 87 (4.10%) .NET Framework
19 84 (3.96%) CSS
20 81 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 706 (33.25%) Cloud Native
2 395 (18.61%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (8.10%) Product Ownership
4 127 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 65 (3.06%) AI Agents
7 65 (3.06%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 47 (2.21%) e-Learning
10 45 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
12 27 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
13 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 20 (0.94%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.89%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.89%) Blog
15 19 (0.89%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 151 (7.11%) Linux
2 50 (2.36%) Windows
3 32 (1.51%) CentOS
3 32 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.04%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (55.35%) CI/CD
2 1,028 (48.42%) Agile
3 773 (36.41%) Software Engineering
4 755 (35.56%) DevOps
5 575 (27.08%) Mentoring
6 566 (26.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 507 (23.88%) Event-Driven
8 480 (22.61%) AI
9 458 (21.57%) Test Automation
10 447 (21.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 426 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 417 (19.64%) Containerisation
13 384 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 337 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
15 313 (14.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 297 (13.99%) Scrum
17 271 (12.76%) Observability
18 263 (12.39%) Architectural Patterns
19 240 (11.30%) TDD
20 233 (10.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 790 (37.21%) Java
2 572 (26.94%) C#
3 509 (23.98%) SQL
4 449 (21.15%) JavaScript
5 423 (19.92%) Python
6 412 (19.41%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.86%) Go
8 57 (2.68%) Ruby
9 44 (2.07%) C++
10 36 (1.70%) Bash
11 33 (1.55%) PHP
12 28 (1.32%) Bicep
13 27 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.18%) PowerShell
15 21 (0.99%) Rust
16 17 (0.80%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.61%) Groovy
17 13 (0.61%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.57%) Scala
19 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 354 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 247 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 169 (7.96%) Degree
4 105 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 85 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (1.65%) CISSP
9 34 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.04%) CISM
11 18 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.47%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.28%) CCSP
16 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (10.55%) QA
2 100 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.79%) WCAG
5 29 (1.37%) GDPR
6 24 (1.13%) NIST
7 19 (0.89%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.80%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.42%) GRC
11 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 9 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
14 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 613 (28.87%) Docker
2 41 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 689 (32.45%) Kubernetes
2 122 (5.75%) Grafana
3 100 (4.71%) Ansible
4 53 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.32%) Argo
5 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.99%) Puppet
7 15 (0.71%) Kibana
8 12 (0.57%) Cilium
9 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.047%) Consul
14 1 (0.047%) Control-M
14 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.047%) logstash
Vendors
1 342 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.71%) Google
3 71 (3.34%) Oracle
4 55 (2.59%) Splunk
5 52 (2.45%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 28 (1.32%) Okta
8 26 (1.22%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.13%) Databricks
10 19 (0.89%) Mistral
11 18 (0.85%) IBM
11 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.80%) AppDynamics
13 16 (0.75%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.66%) Adobe
15 14 (0.66%) OpenText
16 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.47%) NetIQ